Healthy Eating Alternatives During Prolonged Emergency

LiveToShoot · 12-15-2007, 03:21 PM

In our efforts to learn about and prepare to survive whatever may come our way, I've started this thread to discuss a way we can produce healthy food that will sustain us during an emergency, when we may not be able to buy foods from a grocery store, market or harvest it from our garden.

When I was younger I was introduced to eating sprouts, long before they were sold in many stores as they are today.

Alfalfa sprouts were the first ones I ate, in salads and on sandwiches. At the time it was just something that tasted good, especially on an avocado and swiss sandwich.

Later I learned about other sprouts like mung bean, wheat, radish, etc., and included them in meals too.

My wife and I eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables in our diet, along with different meats and dairy products. Because of such, we've talked about the shock it would be to our systems if we were suddenly unable to buy fresh fruits and vegetables or harvest them from our garden.

One of the alternatives for having live foods in our pantry and on our plates, is found in the value of having and using sprout seeds, and sprouting equipment, in our food storage program.

With such, and during a long-term crisis or emergency, or even in day-to-day living, we can still enjoy access to very healthy foods.

Here's some info to consider, should you be interested as well:

Sprouts for Optimum Nutrition
The History of Sprouts and Their Nutritional Value
Sprouting - Sprout science
Sproutman Publications

The really nutrient filled powerhouse seed is broccoli...
Sprouts for your health

As with all our other food storage items, we store what we eat and eat what we store. This helps ensure we only store what we like and that we keep it rotated by eating what we store...reduces waste that way.

I've got a bowl of mung bean sprouts soaking now...

Oh, as a side note, we store our sprouting seeds in #10 cans, in a cool and dry area.

Also, some caution should be taken when using soybeans:
Fanatic Cook: Rethinking Soy

More info available under a Google search for "soybean caution".

LiveToShoot · 12-19-2007, 11:55 AM

Food Storage Update...

My wife and I went to one of the LDS Canneries located near us last night to can more food storage items. While there, I asked one of the staff members if the grains they used had any GM done to them. He said, "NO, they do not.". That was very reassuring.

LiveToShoot · 01-15-2008, 01:03 PM

I scheduled another appointment at the LDS Cannery, to continue building up our family preparedness items, and got a reality confirmation on the wheat shortage that's developing in the US.

Broadside · 01-16-2008, 01:05 AM

LTS thanks for posting this. Sprouts are one of the many things I've been meaning to read up on, but as always slipped my mind.

And GM foods are probably one of humanities greatest threats IMHO.

LiveToShoot · 07-08-2008, 11:22 PM

Maybe this thread should be added into the Gardening Forum?

...it's part of our indoor gardening efforts.

Mike Franklin · 07-09-2008, 07:27 AM

The advantage to living in the country is that you can grow most of what you'd want, inculding fruit and nuts. For a lot of reasons it's likely to get tough on city folk pretty soon.
BTW, cactus fruit is starting to ripen now. I know people who pick hundreds of pounds of these.

Rex in OTZ · 07-09-2008, 04:24 PM

I pack instant rice and a can of kipperd herring its cheap and works,
rounded out with a couple vitamin pills in the seal-a meal pouch of rice "vitamin's degrade over time so keep your rat's current",
All that canned fish you see is relatively inexpensive "sardeens and herring, anchovies,calamari" can be bought in case's for the price of eating out, mac & cheese and top-ramin are empty dishes but will fill the hoe in your belly.
dried meat is good too in this country"NW AK" they air dry the deer meatseal meat & walruss,fish and add nothing, its bland and tastes like nothing and like eating a bite of wax bar but it will keep you alive

Rex in OTZ · 07-09-2008, 04:39 PM

A while back I had came across a few sites for common uses of every day plants & trees, My original search was for "Sura" eskimo for diamond leaf willow turns out that a cup full springtime leaf shoots contain 9.5 to 10 times the Vitamin c of a single orange, they are nothing to write home about for taste but you cant argue with the science,
They also had info for trees that dident grow here,Cottonwoods,Poplar, red ceader,Hicory to name a few + too many plants to mention.

RedneckCatholic · 07-13-2008, 06:20 PM

Plant some rosehips inyour flower garden--they provide vitamin c and they make a nice tea.

12-19-2007, 11:55 AM	#2
LiveToShoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 2,709	Food Storage Update... My wife and I went to one of the LDS Canneries located near us last night to can more food storage items. While there, I asked one of the staff members if the grains they used had any GM done to them. He said, "NO, they do not.". That was very reassuring. __________________ "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown Last edited by LiveToShoot; 12-19-2007 at 08:06 PM.

01-15-2008, 01:03 PM	#3
LiveToShoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 2,709	I scheduled another appointment at the LDS Cannery, to continue building up our family preparedness items, and got a reality confirmation on the wheat shortage that's developing in the US. __________________ "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown

07-08-2008, 11:22 PM	#5
LiveToShoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 2,709	Maybe this thread should be added into the Gardening Forum? ...it's part of our indoor gardening efforts. __________________ "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown

07-09-2008, 07:27 AM	#6
Mike Franklin Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Poteet, Texas Posts: 1,276	The advantage to living in the country is that you can grow most of what you'd want, inculding fruit and nuts. For a lot of reasons it's likely to get tough on city folk pretty soon. BTW, cactus fruit is starting to ripen now. I know people who pick hundreds of pounds of these. __________________ Aim real good we're nearly out of ammo.

07-09-2008, 04:24 PM	#7
Rex in OTZ Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alaska Posts: 573	rice & tin'd fish I pack instant rice and a can of kipperd herring its cheap and works, rounded out with a couple vitamin pills in the seal-a meal pouch of rice "vitamin's degrade over time so keep your rat's current", All that canned fish you see is relatively inexpensive "sardeens and herring, anchovies,calamari" can be bought in case's for the price of eating out, mac & cheese and top-ramin are empty dishes but will fill the hoe in your belly. dried meat is good too in this country"NW AK" they air dry the deer meatseal meat & walruss,fish and add nothing, its bland and tastes like nothing and like eating a bite of wax bar but it will keep you alive

12-15-2007, 03:21 PM	#1
LiveToShoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA Posts: 2,709	Healthy Eating Alternatives During Prolonged Emergency In our efforts to learn about and prepare to survive whatever may come our way, I've started this thread to discuss a way we can produce healthy food that will sustain us during an emergency, when we may not be able to buy foods from a grocery store, market or harvest it from our garden. When I was younger I was introduced to eating sprouts, long before they were sold in many stores as they are today. Alfalfa sprouts were the first ones I ate, in salads and on sandwiches. At the time it was just something that tasted good, especially on an avocado and swiss sandwich. Later I learned about other sprouts like mung bean, wheat, radish, etc., and included them in meals too. My wife and I eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables in our diet, along with different meats and dairy products. Because of such, we've talked about the shock it would be to our systems if we were suddenly unable to buy fresh fruits and vegetables or harvest them from our garden. One of the alternatives for having live foods in our pantry and on our plates, is found in the value of having and using sprout seeds, and sprouting equipment, in our food storage program. With such, and during a long-term crisis or emergency, or even in day-to-day living, we can still enjoy access to very healthy foods. Here's some info to consider, should you be interested as well: Sprouts for Optimum Nutrition The History of Sprouts and Their Nutritional Value Sprouting - Sprout science Sproutman Publications The really nutrient filled powerhouse seed is broccoli... Sprouts for your health As with all our other food storage items, we store what we eat and eat what we store. This helps ensure we only store what we like and that we keep it rotated by eating what we store...reduces waste that way. I've got a bowl of mung bean sprouts soaking now... Oh, as a side note, we store our sprouting seeds in #10 cans, in a cool and dry area. Also, some caution should be taken when using soybeans: Fanatic Cook: Rethinking Soy More info available under a Google search for "soybean caution". __________________ "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." -Unknown Last edited by LiveToShoot; 12-16-2007 at 11:28 AM.

01-16-2008, 01:05 AM	#4
Broadside Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20	LTS thanks for posting this. Sprouts are one of the many things I've been meaning to read up on, but as always slipped my mind. And GM foods are probably one of humanities greatest threats IMHO.

07-09-2008, 04:39 PM	#8
Rex in OTZ Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alaska Posts: 573	Brain Fart! A while back I had came across a few sites for common uses of every day plants & trees, My original search was for "Sura" eskimo for diamond leaf willow turns out that a cup full springtime leaf shoots contain 9.5 to 10 times the Vitamin c of a single orange, they are nothing to write home about for taste but you cant argue with the science, They also had info for trees that dident grow here,Cottonwoods,Poplar, red ceader,Hicory to name a few + too many plants to mention.

07-13-2008, 06:20 PM	#9
RedneckCatholic Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Albania, the Ohio Valley Posts: 256	Plant some rosehips inyour flower garden--they provide vitamin c and they make a nice tea.